Monday, May 13, 2013

Our Great God

One of the amazing
concepts we find in the book of Job is his understanding of how great God
is—and how small he is in comparison. Job says, For he (God) is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come
together in judgment (Job 9:32).

The right focus, the
right emphasis is on God.Job
really gets it.Behold, God is great, and we know him not,
neither can the number of his years be searched out (Job 36:26).

It’s so easy
to get distracted. The world is in a mess. Politics, financial distress, crime,
natural disasters: these all get media attention. Fashion, food, health,
make-up tricks, home decorating and homemaking tips: women all over the world
get inspired by Pinterest, Facebook, blogs, and the like. (Not criticizing,
just saying.)

Job could
have been totally self-centered. He had every excuse. He had just lost his
livelihood, his riches, his servants, and his children. At least one house was completely
destroyed. His wife told him to curse God and die. He had terrible boils all
over his body. He could have focused all his thoughts on his grief, his
problems, his poverty, and his pain. (Most of us would!) Instead, in those awful weeks in the ashes, though Job didn’t
understand what God was doing, he continued to trust in what he knew about God:
God is great.

Read these verses about our God’s greatness:

For the LORD your God is God of gods,
and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not
persons, nor taketh reward (Deuteronomy 10:17).

And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God
of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them
that love him and observe his commandments (Nehemiah 1:5).

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be
praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness (Psalm 48:1).

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
who is so great a God as our God? (Psalm 77:13)

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